The state chronicle. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1883-1893, 1887-06-02

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ton. send on the postal cards EDITOR. !
-. Local Option elections will be held
IN fourteen towns in North Carolina next
Monday.
Messrs. Cook Il Foster Bros, OMEN
Ell the MOrehead Hotel on yesterday WED
heSdayD Grand success is before them.
-. The contract for building the Bla-
don StGeet Methodist church, in Whining
ton, has been awarded to j. " Rowell.
-. The millinery firm of Misses Benson
and Reeves, OF Charlotte, has made an
assignment to Heriot Clarkson as trustee.
Charlotte has a new soda water
factory and bottling establishment This
Is very important enterprise and promises
to be a great success in Charlotte,
-. The counsel for Jas II. Marlborough,
OF North Carolina, convicted of murder at
kmporia, Kansas, have moved for "a new
trial and feel confident their motion will
he granted.
-. Mary, the fourteen year old dauyh-
ter of Peter Avery, of Burke county, drop
ped dead while on her Way to Table Rock,
the 25th ult. She was apparently well
when she started.
-. Mr.. Dovall Porter succeeds Prof.
N. s. Smith as editor of tho Dan Valley
echo Mr.. 2. A. Peatross becomes one of
the proprietors Of the paper. We wish the
paper continued success
49,. A negro boy in Mecklenburg county.
aged Syears, has case Of Transportation
OF the thOracic viscera." At least Neck
lenburg doctor and the Chrlotte Chronicle
say SO. Poor niger, And so young too.
Statewide Landmark.
=. Salisbury has taken step in the
wight direction. Il has made IA move for
an industrial School for girls and a
su description list for the purpose has been
started, and quite large amount has been
subscribed. - Enquirer.
-. The Democratic Board of Commis-
sloners Of the town of Tarboro elected q
negro as member of the police force.
The Southerner says he is q Democrat and
IN the recent elpc..o did us much to carry
the SECOND ward rs amy man in it.
Walker Foreman was shot and in
stantly killed by Cornelius Morgan, head
waiter at the Grand Central, near Ashe-
vile, on Saturday night. Morgan attempt
ed to conceal himself, but was captured
Great excitement prevails among the ne
groes: both parties were cOlOred.
-. Iredel was cut off from Rowan
and organized in l1sS. Next year will
therefore be the centennial anniversary of
our county. |. must be properly celebrat-
ed and 1t is not too early to begin to think
about it. We must have a jubilee: we
MUST have it [Statesville Landmark.
-. The Asheville Citizen notes that last
week a white man from Clay county was
sent to the penitentiary for eighteen
months for stealing a bushel of meal.
The offence was committed more than a
year ago. The Citizen thinks that prima
fac;e tho punishment is out of proportion
to the crime.
State Immigration Agent, J. T. Pat
rick, was in Charlotte last week arrang-
ing for the settlement of a Northern colo
ny on the Carolina Central Railroad, either
between Charlotte and Shelby or Charlotte
and Monroe. The proposed settlement
Will be composed OF twelve families, and
1t is their intention to come before July 1st
-. Major J. W. Wilson left Moryanton
last Monday to be absent for several weeks.
He Is employed by the Richmond and Dan
vile Railroad Company to make survey
for a railroad route across the Climber
land Mountain. This is "A big undertak-
ing, but the Major is just the man to un-
dertake and succeed at Il contract of this
kind MOrgantOn Star.
-. Mr.. j. NJ. Mongcr showed me some
excellent vinegar he had made this week
according to the following method He
takes three gallons of boiling water, mixes
with two ems Of nolaSSaS into tbic ,,,;x
tHre he pours the juice of pound of dried
fruit, puts into uncorked jugs with cloth
over the nozzle and allows this mixture to
sour into good vinegar, costing only 3
cents per gallon Sandford Express
... Information has been received here
of the death. ny drowning in the Missouri
river, on Wednesday evening of this week,
of Saml Y. Shelton, only son of Col. S c.
Shelton, formerly of Ashcville, but who
has been residing in the Santee Agency in
Nebraska for the past eighteen months
No particulars of the accident were given.
The youth was about II years of age, and
his death will give pain to large number
of the friends Of the family here-[Ashe-
vile Citizen.
-. Judge Boykin, adjourned court in
Winston last Friday, and the citizens as
sembled at the Court House to do honor
10 Lne late ana mucn respected citizen,
Hon ID. H. Starbuch. Short, touching
speeches We're made by Judge Wilson,
Judge Boykin, Messrs. G. b. Watson, J.
l.. Patterson, j. G. Buxton, r. b. Glenn,
and E. Z. Gray. Judge Wilson introduced
resolutions of respect, which were adopted
Court remained adjourned until Monday
.. Great excitement prevails in Will
mington, among the colored population,
over a singular occurrence that took place
there last week. A negro woman was
mocking another one singing hymn,
when suddenly a queer sensation was felt
in the palrl of her hand, and upon exami-
nation she found the words, THE Church
Of God, " in blood red capital letters. Great
crowds gathered to see her and few admit
that it is all humbug The woman is
almost maniac and her race in that
place is much agitated.
49,. The Sparta State Normal School
will be held from the 9Th to the Goth OF
July Prof. Chas. ID. McIver, of Peace In
stitute, Raleigh, is Superintendent. He
will be assisted by Professors Nelson b.
Henry. Of the University of North Caroll-
Ma, f. Nick. Goodwin, Council Bluffs,
| Iowa, j. +. Spainhour, Moravian Falls, N.
c.. and Miss Lucy Jurney, Olin, n G.. The
| healthfu location beautiful scenery and
| tine faculty, will tend to make this Nor
NAL one of the best in the State.
| The Maxton Union says that few
days ago young married man in thai